Ecological perspectives on synthetic biology: Insights from microbial population biology

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Escalante, Ana E ^a,b   Rebolleda Gómez, María ^a   Benítez, Mariana ^b,c   Travisano, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cheating; Cooperation; Mass action environment; Microbial consortia, synthetic ecology; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84927521634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00143     Document Type: Review

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